October 2004
The “October 2004” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 6, 2004.
Local
The Legacy of Pier 57
– By Theodore HammA Progressive Grows on Staten Island?
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeChinatown: The Last Frontier
– By Amy Zimmer
Express
The Triumph of Conservatism
– By Norman KelleyCampaign Dispatches
– By David Levi StraussLetter from Tennessee
– By Marjory GarrisonLong Live Indian Larry!
– By Brian MolyneauxHappy Sixty-Fifth Birthday! Now Get Back to Work
– By Stanley MorganExchanges: On Cornel West, and Uncle Peter
– By Stanley Morgan
Art
Andrea Fraser
– By PraxisChronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s, by Pamela Lee
– By Daniel BairdRailing Opinion
– By Robert StorrRudy Burckhardt: The Art of Being
– By Phong H. BuiDeep Space
– By Joan WaltemathJamaica Flux: Jamaica Center Evolves
– By William Powhida
ArtSeen
Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 1954–1968
– By Katie StoneLester Johnson
Four Decades of Painting– By James KalmPeter Caine
You're a Sensation– By Nick StillmanBjørn Melhus
– By William PowhidaHalsey Rodman
K is Multiplied--The Swirling Mists Freeze and the Stars Melt Across the Sky– By Roger WhiteWhite Matter(s)
– By Chris HowardMark Esper
Gizmology– By William PowhidaGerta Conner
– By Tomassio LonghiThe Wedding Project
– By Shane McAdamsTodd Hido
Roaming: New Landscapes– By Stephanie BuhmannJason Alan Klotz and Mikhail Leykin
Robot– By Sonya ShrierJon Gregg
Heads, Hands, and Leaves– By Ben La RoccoWilliam Eggleston
Los Alamos– By Farrah Karapetian
Music
Decasia at St. Ann's Warehouse
– By Alan Lockwoodreview: Ilhan Mimaroglu and Kenneth Patchen
– By Fred CisternaSimon Finn
Pass the Distance
– By David Shirley
Dance
Gabri Christa’s Dominata at Dance Theater Workshop
– By Vanessa MankoDe Keersmaeker’s Mozart/ Concert Arias: un moto di gioia
– By Shanti CrawfordDancing on the Rail
– By Vanessa MankoThirteen ways of looking at Shen Wei
– By Claudia La Rocco
Film
Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate
– By David N. MeyerThe Passion for The Passion: Mel Gibson's Passion Goes DVD
– By Michael J. ThompsonDocs in Sight
– By Williams Cole and Williams Cole
Theater
The Last of The Mohican Bohemians (or What Drove Stephen Bottoms to Chronicle the Off-Off Broadway Movement) An article in performance
– By Michelle MemranIn dialogue: Inhabiting The Clean House with Sarah Ruhl
– By Lila Rose Kaplanreview: Reality Theater: Guantanamo
– By Pamela Newtonreview: An Earnest Start: Brooklyn's Brave New World
– By Alan Lockwoodreview: Playing Underground
– By Michael SmithAntigones in New York
– By Saviana Stanescu
Fiction
excerpt from: The Book of Jon
– By Eleni SikelianosReflection from Lisbon
– By John StewartHot & Cold —A Very Brief History of Intimate Love
– By Jim Savio
Poetry
Mash Notes from a Pop Junk Addict
– By Urayoán NoelTwo Poems
– By Amy KingTwo Poems
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle